The hidden iPhone setting tracking your location to preserve battery health
An iPhone hack to prolong battery life has again been circulating the web, as the little-known feature continues to surprise iPhone users.
The feature, which uses an algorithm to learn each user’s phone charging habits, aims to reduce the amount of time a phone spends fully charged, to help it last longer.
Lithium-ion batteries — such as the ones in every iPhone — experience “chemical ageing” when they are stressed.
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“A battery’s chemical age results from a complex combination of several factors, including temperature History and charging pattern,” Apple explains.
One major stressor is when a battery is fully charged. That’s where Apple’s Optimised Battery Charging comes in.
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